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Dark Souls II |OT++| Bearer of...Seek...Seek...Lest
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Deified Data
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Going to start a new character. Pure STR build. Character archetype is "barbarian warlord". I want to make a scantily-clad mountain of meat wielding colossal, primitive-looking weapons. Gear suggestions?
The rampart golem set is pretty decent set once you've upgraded it. It takes twinkling though to do so however but it's still fine at base level.Finally got this set.
It's either the pigs, skeletons, and or veldstadt she summons.
I've got an outfit for just that somewhere I'll try to find it. Weapon wise though a bandit greataxe or giant warrior club maybe I can think of a few others though that'll work depends how big you want it.
Some massive club and loincloth only.
Deified Data
Banned
I'm thinking Executioner's set, possibly Lion Warrior set. Of course I'll be mixing stuff around. Fashion Souls is my top priority.
Mine too
If I don't look good doing it, what's the point?Only achievements I have left are grab all the different magics and max devotion.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Get the reskinned great club in the Majula chest while it's there, it has blood on it, looks fearsome.
For Fashion Souls, if you don't mind a bit of farming, the lion warrior set should look badass. The headpice in particular looks pretty barbaric/shamanic (don't worry, the male version of the chest piece isn't a bra, lol, it's a fur cape with an exposed chest, can't find a good pic, here's a shitty one). Or you could use the chest and leg pieces of the Executioner set. Maybe with a Gyrm helm, or the felyne flying boots?
Damn straight.
Speaking of Fashion Souls, I'm currently progressing with a friend for a PS3 coop run, and I made a hexer. She's an old white-haired woman with yellow eyes and I want her to look kinda like a pagan druid/witch kind of thing. Right now she's wearing the pyromancer robe and boots/skirt and lion mage bracers and no helmet (I probably won't give her any as I like showing the face). But I'm open to suggestions. I tried the hexer robes, white priest robe, archdrake robe, and lion mage set, but I'm not entirely satisfied with them.
Deified Data
Banned
Great recommendations. Thanks very much for the reskinned Great Club rec, I wasn't aware of that.Get the reskinned great club in the Majula chest while it's there, it has blood on it, looks fearsome.
For Fashion Souls, if you don't mind a bit of farming, the lion warrior set should look badass. The headpice in particular looks pretty barbaric/shamanic (don't worry, the male version isn't a bra, lol, it's a fur cape with an exposed chest, can't find a good pic, here's a shitty one). Or you could use the chest and leg pieces of the Executioner set. Maybe with a Gyrm helm, or the felyne flying boots?
Maybe consider mixing in something from Nahr Alma, Penal, or Prisoner sets?
Orthogonal
Member
I haven't played since the new patch. Are all our saves intact? Do we get to choose whether we play with the old enemy placement, or is it automatically pushed to the new setup?
Deified Data
Banned
New enemy placement is only in Scholar of the First Sin, which is a separate purchase. All saves are still compatible in the base game.
White hollow mage robe with archdrake boots and gloves?
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Hmm maybe. Gonna need to farm those annoying mages though, urgh.
Orthogonal
Member
I have tried to follow but it is still confusing. There is still a new NPC and boss in the "old" version though?
Yes.
I'm assuming Yearn also works?
Red Liquorice
Member
I think they're both easier on NG+ just because you have the chance to be higher level, do prep, upgrade everything, buy consumables etc before hand. It's also a lot safer imo to ascetic one of the big bosses over and over and then pop the souls in NG+ to have immediate access to Shrine of Winter, cutting out half of the game, it's a very quick playthrough to get the rings.
I'd like to try a no death/no bonfire run from a fresh NG though, I think it would be fun and strategic to only have access to stuff like repair powder and spell herbs when you find them (unless you want to do tons of backtracking to vendors etc).
It does work if you've got that instead of alluring skulls.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Yearn is better, even, it lasts a bit longer.
Deified Data
Banned
Depends on whether they give us PC players a discount, but I'm not holding my breath.
Laurentius
Member
Well, some item descriptions talked about how Aldia screwed up his form as a result of the experiments he was doing to cure the curse. (Stuff like putting giant souls in things, creating the Ancient Dragon and possibly Shanollette, etc.)
As for looking like a tree, I always assumed it must have something to do with Chaos. "Sin" is often associated with the Witch of Izalith, i.e., the Bed of Chaos. The fact that he's basically a tree that shoots fireballs definitely seems to indicate to me that he was consumed by Chaos during his experiments.
As for looking like a tree, I always assumed it must have something to do with Chaos. "Sin" is often associated with the Witch of Izalith, i.e., the Bed of Chaos. The fact that he's basically a tree that shoots fireballs definitely seems to indicate to me that he was consumed by Chaos during his experiments.
SodiumBenzoate
Member
Man, Vendrick's blessing sure is great for the frozen outskirts. that fucking place.
Haven't been there on my own, but I invaded as a Blue to deal some justice and I spent 15 minutes running around having no fucking clue what to do. That place is horrible enough without enemies, can't imagine going there on my own
Laurentius
Member
FYI, Silver Talismans received a buff in the last update. They now affect enemies. You can use one in the Frozen Outskirts and only move when the storm clears, and you should be able to almost completely avoid the Death Ponies. (Or so I've heard, haven't tried it yet myself.)
Yeah he gave me a bed of chaos vibe. Just met once so far.
Orochinagis
Member
Something something trying to replicate the first flame on the hollow tree after failing to break the curse throught emerald herald and giants souls failed , also Chaos is the unused wild form of the flame and later the humans mastered and called it Pyromancy.
Cannon Goose
Member
Crit damage is still so confusing in this game. I'll do anything from 300 to 1300 on a backstab (NG+2) regardless of the armour my opponent is wearing. In fact, the ones wearing lighter armour seem to take way less crit damage than those in heavier stuff. It's kind of demoralising when you land a potentially life saving parry and the riposte only does 400 damage.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Doesn't defense automatically raise by 1 point at every level or something? Maybe your opponents just vary a lot in level, since matchmaking is all SM anyway.
Didn't want to make a new thread, but I'm assuming there are long time From Software fans here...
Are Eternal Ring, Evergrace and Shadow Tower worth playing? Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm going to play Shadow Tower(already played Kingsfield IV) but the other two look pretty janky and light on the horror, yet still interesting enough. Evergrace almost looks like a Souls game even.
Are Eternal Ring, Evergrace and Shadow Tower worth playing? Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm going to play Shadow Tower(already played Kingsfield IV) but the other two look pretty janky and light on the horror, yet still interesting enough. Evergrace almost looks like a Souls game even.
Skip Evergrace and play Eternal Ring and Shadow Tower. Mind you they have flaws like the slow movement and the combat has aged but they are worth playing for the exploration.
Finally managed to beat the 2 tigers boss. Fucking gauntlet to the boss was actually harder than the actual boss, I fucked up so many times I despawned all the fucking ponies.
Anyone knows a good way to farm Loyce souls? Coop isn't biting and getting to 50 for the Eleum Loyce seems like a fool's errand.
Anyone knows a good way to farm Loyce souls? Coop isn't biting and getting to 50 for the Eleum Loyce seems like a fool's errand.
I remember people figuring out that the framerate had an effect on the backstab/riposte damage. Higher framerate meant worse damage?
Red Liquorice
Member
You can farm them yourself just by feathering out once the boss arrives, if you've already killed him I believe the spawn rate lowers on the knights(?) and the drop rate for the souls is higher for phantoms too I've read. So co-op really is the quickest way unfortunately. On the upside it's only something you have to do once on a character not every NG cycle since you keep the loyce souls in your inventory even after you get to 50 and speak to queen whatsherface.
Orochinagis
Member
You can.
DarkHeartedKill
Member
Might just be the quality, but that looks very similar to Orns setFinally got this set.
. I want it.There's some similarity but there's really not much in common with the aesthetics of the pair:Might just be the quality, but that looks very similar to Orns set
hydrophilic attack
Member
Are you on NG+ or NG? I found it very slow when I did it on NG, but after popping an ascetic, bringing the area up to NG+, I found they dropped a lot faster.
Also, it's much better to farm before you beat the boss, so you can still use the Loyce knights and summons as helpers to make things go quicker. So if you already beat the boss, popping an ascetic is worth it just to re-spawn the boss.
Orthogonal
Member
Worst area in the entire game.
Mr. Poolman
Member
I used to help people get there, since it was so difficult to me as well.
Pay it forward.
bobawesome
Member
The Ornstein set was a thing of beauty. The armor in DS2 never reached the same heights, i feel.
neoism
Member
Yeah I got really good getting to the boss that fucker took me 48 tries @_@ never aGAIN
Cannon Goose
Member
Yeah that does happen. I think it's VIG, END and ADP that naturally raise defence all the way to 99. You don't get that much more defence out of it though.
Yeah, frame rate is tied to critical damage in a silly way. If both players have 41fps or higher, the damage will be normal, but if it's 40 or below the damage will be reduced and there will sometimes be fewer 'ticks' of damage during the riposte animation. Someone wrote a post about it on Reddit a while ago.
So considering all of that, it's probably pretty likely that I'm just facing SL500+ players with rubbish frame rates
Not even the Alonne knight's and their captain's set?
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Tbh I could probably name dozens of sets from both games that look better than Ornstein's, but I was never a fan of that look. It's fine on the boss, but looks goofy on a player, IMO.